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Use this website with Beverley Paine's Getting Started with Home Schooling - Practical Considerations to help you develop your own educational curriculum to suit your family situation, beliefs and lifestyle. The checklists can help you identify your children's current educational skill level in each subject area, as well as find any 'gaps' in their learning, plan what they need to cover or keep track of what has been learned. As you can appreciate this website is continuously under development... It's our aim to add pages on a regular basis in all curriculum areas: check back frequently. We hope you enjoy the articles and activities and find the links and recommended resources useful. Over the next year we will be working our way through each subject area and writing fresh, new content. |
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The Next Step: Shared Oral Reading
© Beverley Paine, 2004
If you can, borrow a few copies of the same book from the library. If they are different editions and have different pictures or covers, that's great: you can do a comparative study! The point, however, is to make sure the text is the same. Then the fun can begin.
Why not share reading the story aloud? You can agree to read the first sentence and your child read the next and so on to the end of the book or chapter, or to the beginning of the next section. Or different readers can take the part of different characters and read lines of dialogue, as in a play. Ask the librarian if she can get in multiple copies of books containing plays for children...
Some picture books have parts that are like the chorus of a song. Little kids love to recite these sections, while you read the narrative. Choral reading, or reading in unison, is fantastic to listen to. Children feel comfortable when their voice is lost in the 'crowd', and as 'performers' their self-esteem soars and they quickly learn how to pronounce different words, where to put in pauses, and how much expression to use.
When you read together as a family, it's fun to break after an action-packed scene and try on the roles yourselves. Or you may all read the same story, but at different times. The shared retelling of a plot can transform the readers into the story; in their minds they become the characters.
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